What’s the difference between Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll?
They sort of sound the same. Any difference.
I’m not talking about the crappy modern RnB with stupid beats here, I’m talking about classic RnB. Also, I’m talking about rock & roll, not rock.
When I reckon of R&B, I reckon of Sam Cooke ( a “soulful” sound )
When I reckon of R&R, I reckon of Chuck Berry ( up-rhythm “skip woogie” )
This is a terrible answer, but I see your point.
I read descriptions from the following sites and still was did not have a clear “classification”
I know who are R&B artists & who are R&R artists —
but again, why they in those categories, when both seem to have “drawn” from the same influences… sort of.
Here are some quotation marks on R&B.
…and then the next site seems to say that –
“Rock and Roll” CAME FROM Rhythm & Blues, but with the ADDITION of a Country-Composition influence.
Again — sorry I have to resort to “site references” — but I am having distress explaining (or putting it into words) myself !!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R&b
“The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when “urbane, rocking, jazz based composition with a heavy, insistent beat” was apt more well loved.”
“…term “R&B” became used – particularly by colorless groups – to refer to composition styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul composition.”
“…the term “rhythm and blues” was life used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk. Since the 1990s, the term “Contemporary R&B” is now mainly used to refer to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop composition.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_’n_roll
Hopefully, someone else can give you a more refined classification
thats because they are the same. they have the same structure and same chords, but just played different. the rhythm is different and the styles.
Basically, R&B contains more ‘Soul’ influences, whereas R&R has more ‘Blues’ influences {yes, I know that sounds incorrect, but…!}.
It can be hard to tell the difference.
rock and roll is a combination of rhythm and blues and country
rhythm and blues The term was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans. The term has subsequently had a digit of shifts in meaning.In the early 1950s and beyond, the term “rhythm and blues” was frequently applied to blues records, for instance, John Lee Hooker’s “I’m in the Mood”.
take care
dave
The most vital difference is one of mood and rhythm. Rock and roll is a animated, up-rhythm style of composition, while rhythm and blues is a downbeat, soulful style. Rock and roll comes from a youthful place of excitment, exploration and passion (note that most classic rock-and-roll songs either express like or youthful rebellion), while rhythm-and-blue really comes from a sense of maturity, the realization that sometimes life sucks but you have to take it as it is.
For me, I listened to rock-and-roll when I fell in like, and I listened to rhythm-and-blues just after I broke up. In each case, I felt the composition was speaking to my soul, to the place where my heart was at that moment.